Hardline US Senator Lindsey Graham has blasted Iran for the death of six Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip, and pressed the administration of US President Joe Biden and Israel’s government to target Iran’s oil refineries in response.
Senior Hamas official Izzat al-Risheq has stated that the six Israeli captives found dead in a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday were killed in the regime's air strikes.
Israel has confirmed the deaths of six more hostages taken in the October 2023 attack by Hamas after the captives’ bodies were found in a Gaza tunnel during military operations in the besieged strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently requested increased security for his son in the United States due to concerns over retaliation by Iran following the assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, according to a report.
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations says Iran will retaliate against the Israeli regime’s assassination of the political chief of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in Tehran at a time and in a manner it cannot predict.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has claimed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted a final, bridging proposal to finalize a ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip and put the onus on Hamas to bring the agreement to a close.
The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements claimed responsibility on Monday for a bomb blast in Tel Aviv that Israeli police and the Shin Bet intelligence agency described as "a terrorist attack".
At least two Palestinians were killed Saturday in an Israeli drone strike that targeted a vehicle in the city of Jenin, northern part of the occupied West Bank.
In 10 months of war in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s military has considerably weakened Hamas, but continued bombings are now yielding diminishing returns and exacerbating civilian suffering, according to senior US officials quoted by The New York Times.
A new round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations are set to take place in Qatar's Doha on Thursday, involving officials from Israel, Qatar, the United States and Egypt, officials have stated.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant's admission that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the one who is creating obstacles to reaching a cease-fire deal in Gaza confirms his “lies and intransigence”, the Palestinian resistance group Hamas has announced.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has accused Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of adopting an "anti-Israel narrative in a damning statement" released on Monday.
The spokesperson for Hamas's armed wing has claimed that one Israeli hostage was killed by his guard and two women captives were seriously wounded in two separate incidents in Gaza.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has stated Beijing supports Iran in defending its "sovereignty, security and national dignity" amid Tehran’s promise to punish Israel over the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital.
Palestinian group Hamas has asked mediators to present a plan based upon previous talks instead of engaging in the new round of talks for a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, casting doubt on its participation in a Thursday meeting called by the mediators.
Hamas spokesman Jihad Taha has stated the Palestinian group’s leadership is “studying” the invitation for more ceasefire talks from the US, Qatar and Egypt.
The Quranic Society in Iran held a ceremony on Friday in the capital Tehran to commemorate the head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in an Israeli strike on July 31.
The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in New York has reiterated any accord struck by the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, with the Israeli regime over a ceasefire and termination of the occupying regime’s months-long genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip is acceptable for Iran.
Israel immediately informed US officials that it was behind the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, The Washington Post daily reported, citing sources.
Hamas on Tuesday announced that it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, who heads the movement in the Gaza Strip, as the new chief of the group, following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran last week.
The assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran was intended to prolong the conflict in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia’s RIA state news agency in an interview published Tuesday.
The United Nations has announced nine employees of UNRWA, its agency for Palestinian refugees, “may have been involved” in the October 7 attack on southern Israel by Palestinian group Hamas, adding that they have been fired.
Nearly half of Hamas' military battalions in northern and central Gaza Strip have rebuilt some of their fighting capabilities at least once, a CNN investigation has found.